Author: Ricardo Baca

DENVER – Fitness junkies are used to having relatively open access to Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s many steps and benches for morning workouts, but the city just announced a private fitness program that will close the amphitheater to the non-paying public for more than an hour once each week, starting May 5. The HealthOne Red Rocks…

It wouldn’t be summertime in Morrison if longtime Colorado favorites Big Head Todd and the Monsters weren’t playing Red Rocks Amphitheatre. And yes, the locals – who first struck radio gold with “Bittersweet” in the early ’90s – have another Red Rocks date planned for 2012. Todd Park Mohr and the gang will headline Red…

When the 21st annua Rocky Mountain Folks Festival opens its doors Friday (8/19/11), it will be welcoming sellout crowds and one of the best lineups of the last decade. On today’s bill: one of the most beautiful voices in contemporary music,Brandi Carlile, right, folk singerMartin Sextonand songwriter Livingston Taylor. Saturday: masterful songwriter Josh Ritter, folk legen dMary Gauthier and a supergroup made…

DENVER – When U2 first took the alien stage perched atop Invesco Field’s grass at 8:45 p.m. Saturday, the packed crowd of 70,000-plus fans welcomed the Irish band with the kind of reception normally reserved for the venue’s regular tenants: the Denver Broncos. Synchronized foot-stomps and “the wave” and all-day tailgating led to that climactic…

As U2 released its first few albums in the early ’80s, it was clear to a select few that the Irish rock group had the potential to be big. The band members knew it. Those early publicity stills are more about the fire in their eyes than their questionable fashion sense. Band manager Paul McGuinness…

The Mile High Music Festival will not bring the rock this summer. The annual event will take a hiatus in 2011, promoter AEG Live plans to announce today. The two-day festival brought the Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, Tool, Jack Johnson, Widespread Panic and others to Commerce City over the past three years. AEG is…

This year’s Grammys telecast almost completely avoided the bombast that has been its trademark — and dead weight — in past ceremonies. And it made for a watchable 200-plus minutes on Sunday night that was, for the most part, more watchable than the recent Super Bowl’s halftime show. Sure, Lady Gaga’s performance wasn’t as outrageous…

Colorado’s own Isaac Slade of The Fray performed to the crowds at the 2nd Annual Mile High Music Fest in July 2009. Photo by JOHN LEYBA, THE DENVER POST JOHN LEYBA